Long before Einstein, Hegel said that space and time combine to form motion. More specifically, he said that space plus time equals mass and it's motions. Although much addition thoughts has been added to this, he has a point in calling force "a category of reflection fixed by the understanding". If I feel heat from a portable heater, I know which direction the hottest is coming from. When my senses are not perceiving it, how do I know where the energy or force is then coming from? If you deprive us of our senses, no knowledge of the world is possible.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0211826&fbclid=IwAR1NDCirfOWY2lrB-YVwc8m-IMX9F-7RDmmriakA8xYWWbKud7TqOajsdhU

In birds this magnetism is said to arise from quantum mechanics. It is an assumption though that "bottom up" is more fundamental than "top down".

We don't even know which direction the arrow of time is going:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-backwards/

So all in all “When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door” (Simone Weil) and we really don't know why science is no unreasonably effective